Records of the Indiana Cooperative Board which existed from 1952 - 1973.

News Bulletin of the Middle Indiana Church of the Brethren (1946) - Equity Board Report (1946) - Giving to General Church Funds - News Bulletin (1945) - copy of Homer Capehart's letter to L. W. Shultz regarding peacetime military conscription (1945) - Budgets (Conference, Brethren Service, Suppl. Pension) - Record of Giving (by congregation)  - District Schedule 1942 (calendar) - 1941 District Tour of Middle Indiana - Record of Sunday Schools by congregation (1911-1941) - Sunday School Statistics (1916 - 1937) - Record of Sunday Schools by congregation (1921 - 1930) - Membership Growth by congregation (1911 - 1941) - Statistics (Membership, S. S. Enrollment, Average Attendance, Total Offering) 1911 - 1941 - Questions for Discussion by Boards of Christian Education (how can a District Board get its work done in a time of gas rationing and tire shortage?, and other questions) - Sunday School Statistics (1911 - 1937) - Schedule of District Tour (Mexico, Monticello, Bachelor Run, Santa Fe, Sugar Grove, Salamonie, South Whitley, Eel River) - 1927 District Tour Reports, Tour Leaders 1928 - Other District Tour Schedules  (North Group: Pleasant View, Sugar Creek, South Whitley, Spring Creek Plunge Creek, Eel River, West Eel River East Group: Pleasant Dale, Sugar Grove, Bethel Center, Hickory Grove, Portland Huntington Group: Salamonie, Loon Creek, Markle, Andrews, Clear Creek, Huntington City West Manchester Group: Roann, Wabash City, Ogans Creek, West Manchester, Manchester) - 1928 Tour Policies - Questionaire for Second District Tour March, 1923 - 1943/1944/1945 Ministerial Evangelists, 1944 Middle Indiana Preaching Record - Other Ministerial Support Records - Membership Reports to District Meeting, A Study in Trends, 1944 (1900-1944)

Middle Indiana Statistics (various years): Building - remodeling - full-time pastors - giving - pastoral salary in Middle Indiana - Full time pastoral salary in Central Region - number of churches and congregations in Middle Indiana - Middle Indiana church membership - Sunday School and Church attendance

1944-1945 Church Directory of the Middle District of Indiana, with information including name of congregation, Elder, Pastor, Treasurer, Women's Work President and Secretary, Men's Work President and Secretary, Brethren Service Representative, Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School Treasurer, Sunday School Secretary, Adult Leader of the Young People, Young People's President, Leader of Intermediates, Leaders of Juniors, Teachers of Children (name and address), Teachers of Young People (name and address), Teachers of Adults (name and address).  Information was to be filled out and sent to L. W. Shultz, North Manchester, IN.

Materials related to the proposed merger of the COB Middle and Southern Indiana Districts, including but not limited to: Findings and Statistical Information on the Feasibility Study Regarding the Merger of Middle and Southern Indiana Districts of the Church of the Brethren with a Summary Recommendation (not for general distribution).

Materials related to the history of: Sugar Creek (Tunker, Indiana), Landess, Somerset, Cart Creek and Sweetser, Union Grove (Muncie), Four Mile Church of the Brethren in Union County, Huntington, Roann, Program of the 150th Anniversay of the Organization of the Four Mile Church of the Brethren (1959).

Some 1963 1973 - 1976 South Central Indiana "SALT" newsletters (incomplete).

South Central District Conference Materials - 1972.

Materials from the South/Central District Board (1979-1980).

Folder containing miscellaneous items, including correspondence from the Mexico, Indiana Church of the Brethren.

Folder containing primarily South Central Indiana Material with a few Middle Indiana items, including but not limited to: Allen Deeter's Biblical Reference for Church's Mission (1976) - 1979 South/Central Inspirational Conference - 1973 and 1977 District Conference materials - Thought Provokers for Evangelism Workshop - (TEAM) Total Evangelistic Action mission for Middle Indiana - Southern Indiana membership trends by congregation (1945-1965) - South/Central Inspirational Conference (1978 and 1980) - Timbercrest Annual Reports for 1976 and 1977 (place in COB Filing Cabinet, IS: Timbercrest) - "Women Witness," newsletter for South Central Church of the Brethren Women's Fellowship, 1963 and 1975 incomplete - 1971 Women's Fellowship Rally.

Miscellanous items including but not limited to: Other directories and reports, including reports for Camp Mack and Camp Living Waters, and program for Camp Mack's 1975 50 years of service celebration with Alvin Brightbill, Perry Huffaker, Roa Page Welch, and Robert Tully.

Copies of L. W. Shultz related articles, including but not limited to: "Wenger Clan Notes," The Wenger Family Associations Quarterly, Vol. II, No 27, with an article on Otho Winger, by Lawrence Shultz - A Sunday Morning Service in Switzerland (1957), by Shultz - 1945 letter of thanks from Stanislau Tolwinski, Mayor of the City of Warsaw, Poland to the Office of the Mayor of Warsaw, Indiana - Memorial Day Address at Lancaster Cemetery, 1960, by Shultz - An Interview with L. W. Shultz (1963) by M. R. Zigler [booklet placed in Large Faculty/Staff Boxes: Shultz folder.

1947 program from the First Brethren Church in Elkhart, Indiana - Rally Day.

Program of Sunday School Normal at the Pleasant View Church, 1915.

1946 District Meeting Program at the Manchester College Chapel, 1946.

Program of Elders' Meeting at Flora Indiana, 1936.

District Conference Booklet, Camp Mack, Milford, IN, 1962.

Middle Indiana BYPF newsletter, "The Searchlight," 1944 with article from Bill Eberly.

1951 copy of the "Searchlight."

The Indiana Cooperative Board began in 1952 when representatives of the three Districts of Indiana met "to discuss the possibility of a state-wide approach to the home mission work of Indiana." The result was the creation of the Indiana Home Mission Extension Commission with the stated purpose of encouraging and financing church extension within the churches of the Brethren in the state of Indiana."